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has the employer issued a proposed agreement for you to review yet? They are normally standard, which the variable being the amount of severance, and whether you seek positive reference, no defamation, confidentiality,

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Customer reply replied 7 months ago

no they havent my union rep says that we will offer first. I thought this was going to an education lawyer not family lawyer? not sure how that happened.

accrued days and benefits would be paid. That is standard, but you would not ask, unless omitted from their separation agreement. It should not be omitted as a standard to include

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Customer reply replied 7 months ago

ok, so nothing else important that I am missing? Is there anything I need to look out for, anything they commonly try to do or out in there to would make it not good or safe for me? Is there any downfall to not agreeing to their terms and sticking to what I need?

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Customer reply replied 7 months ago

Being as though you said it was a pretty standard agreement do you not think I could get by with the Illinois union rep who is a lawyer. Even though I don’t completely trust her I feel like I could know what my bot***** *****ne was. If I’m not happy with the work she was doing am I able to stop the process and then hire someone? Is there a downfall to doing that?Thanks by the way

Very welcome. You can gauge what union lawyer will do. Some will work hard so have the conversation to determine and perhaps interview a local lawyer or two to compare approaches and expectations.

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Customer reply replied 7 months ago

I have talked to both. The union rep said that we should go in with the offer first I’m going to tell her I haven been advised to have them offer first since they’re the ones that suggested the separation agreement. Other than that I’m just not really sure if it’s something that I need to spend the money on or not. Retainer fee is pretty expensive ...

Can I start with the union rep and if I’m not happy with her progress hire a lawyer and proceed from there

Customer reply replied 7 months ago

I am on fmla leave now. When i ask to get pd out for my sick days, can I only ask or would I only get paid out for the days I have remaining, or can I ask for the days that I had remaining when all of this mess started before my fmla leave started?

OkI am attaching a picture of their initial offer. In my thoughts and thinking right now on family medical leave I am guaranteed my pay and my insurance until August so their $40,000 to resign now is basically covering my pay and what I would have to pay for cobra insurance. So the $40,000 is basically offering me what I am owed if I stay on leave and don’t resign till the end of the year. So basically that offer it’s only giving me what I’m going to get anyway. Going by what you had told me about the severance two weeks for every year that you worked that would be 20 weeks of severance. I feel like I am owed on top of all of that 55,000 or so as a severance considering I’m not going to get pd what I am making now at another job because they’re not going to start me at step 15 if I’m lucky a job will start me at step 10 and I won’t be getting $93,000 salary which I have now. What are your thoughts?

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